Are Canadian EMs as dynamic as their American counterparts? According to various existing data sources and a new survey conducted After ME leaders, both in Canada and the United States, various external factors that hinder the creation of SMEs. One of these factors is economic conditions. The survey of 800 businesses (250 employees or less) in Canada and 400 in the United States gave the following number of respondents who consider that the economic situation/state of the market is an obstacle to the creation of SMEs: Canada: Number of respondents = 245 United States: Number of respondents = 130 What is, under the hypothesis of equality of the two proportions, the estimate of the common ratio? Use a significance level a = 0.01.